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cryopreserved
verb
Past of cryopreserve
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The declaration of intent makes clear that the options for patients regarding unused embryos are "discarding the cryopreserved embryo(s)", "donating the cryopreserved embryo(s) for approved research studies", "donating the cryopreserved embryos to another couple in order to attempt pregnancy", or "use by one partner with the contemporaneous permission of the other for that use".
And that's fitting because the talk show host's new Web endeavor on Hulu, "Larry King Now," is almost exactly that – his persona is cryopreserved on the Internet, in suspenders, if not suspension, in fine fettle and ready for television resuscitation sometime in the future.
"People who want to be cryopreserved are like refugees from the present, fleeing to the future because they can't survive here," he said.
Tissue samples from the ears of rock-star bulls and cows from across rural America are sent to the company in temperature-controlled boxes, then chopped and placed into incubators to allow their cells to multiply before being cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen.
Sperm, which does little at -196C, could be cryopreserved for centuries and still safely thawed to fertilise an egg, say experts.
Another donor was Michael Andregg, then 31, co-founder of Halcyon Molecular, a high-profile genetics start-up in Silicon Valley: "I hope you preferably get better," he wrote to her, "but failing that get cryopreserved".
Even some of her supportive circle of friends had seemed unsure of what to say when she sounded them out about it: Until Kim brought it up, one friend thought it was a fiction invented by the creators of "Futurama," the animated television series whose "accidentally cryopreserved" protagonist wakes up in the future.
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We take out the ovary and cryopreserve it for free and transplant it for free.
Barry Fuller, a professor in surgical science and low temperature medicine, at University College London, said: "There is ongoing research into these scientific challenges, and a potential future demonstration of the ability to cryopreserve human organs for transplantation would be a major first step into proving the concept, but at the moment we cannot achieve that".
The option of cryopreserving gametes or newly formed human embryos now means that there is at least a theoretical possibility that the 14-year-old girl really could have produced the same child – or at least a child from the same gametes – many years later.
Another way to produce a genetic duplicate from an existing person is by cryopreserving one of two genetically identical embryos created in vitro for several years or decades before using it to generate a pregnancy.
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